kirtle

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Springing with a bound over the Kirtle, he seized Blacket House in the act of flight.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various

The latter lover becoming jealous, concealed himself in the bushes of the banks of the Kirtle, which flows by the kirkyard of Kirconnell, where the true lovers were accustomed to walk.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Neir is the Kirtle, but neirer is the Sark.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Stampoy, Pappity

Kirtle, kėr′tl, n. a sort of gown or outer petticoat: a mantle.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Thy gowns, thy shooes, thy beds of Roses, Thy Cap, thy Kirtle, and thy Posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak